Hat, coat, cane, opera-glass, hand-bag, and umbrella holder.



APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 21, 1912.

Patented Feb. 4, 1913.

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HAT, COAT, CANE, OPERA GLASS, HAND BAG, AND UMBRELLA HOLDER.

' APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 21, 1912.

- 1,051,930. Patented F8114, 1913.

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. J. W. VAUGHN. HAT, GOAT, CANE, OPERA GLASS, HAND BAG, AND UMBRELLA HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.21, 1912.

Patented Feb. 4, 1913.

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JOHN W. VAUGHN, OF NOBOTON HEIGHTS, CONNECTICUT.

HAT, COAT, CANE, OPERA-GLASS, HAND-BAG, AND UMBRELLA HOLDER.

To alt whom it may concern Be it known that I, J 01m VAUGHN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Noroton Heights, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat, Coat, Cane, Opera-Glass, Hand-Bag, and Umbrella Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a hat, coat, cane, opera-glass, hand bag, and umbrella holder, and has for its object the provision of an improved device of this character preferably of the coin cont-rolled type and adapted for use in hotels, theaters and other public places, the object of the invention being to provide a device of this character constructed in such manner that patrons thereof may, upon depositing a coin, securely lock their belongings and secure possession of a key which may be retained. until their departure, and which key will serve to release said articles when desired.

A further object of the invention is to provide a key for a device of this character which can not be removed except when the device has been moved to locking position.

A further objectof the invention is the provision of means for compelling the operator to move theoperating member its full travel after it has once been started.

Further objects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in the detailed description which now follows.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a perspective view of a device of this character constructed in accordance with the in vention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view thereof. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view theret-hrough. Fig. 4 is a detailed view of a coin controlled mechanism hereinafter described. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a coin controlled mechanism, and Fig. 6 is a plan view of thecoin receiving elements.

Like numerals designate corresponding; parts in all of the figures of the drawing.

In the drawing, 5 designates a supporting base and 6 an upstanding hollow standard or casing adapted to receive four duplicate mechanisms controlling fastening elements upon the four faces of said casing. \Vhile in the present instance a four sided casing has been illustrated, it is apparent that a hexagonal or octagonal casing might be employed and the number of the mecha nisms increased wlthout departure from the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 21, 1912.

Patented Feb. 4,1913.

Serial No. 721,638.

invention. Upon each of the faces of the casing is a hat recelvlng bracket 7, upon which a hat may be placed. The hat is then secured in position by a cup-like crown embracing member 8, mounted at the outer end of a lever 9. This lever is pivoted at 10 to a wall 11, within the casing, and is adapted to be moved downward by a rod 12, which slides through brackets 13 secured to wall 11. The rod 12 also has a pin and slot connection 14 with a coat securing lever 15 adapted to fit over a coat receiving bracket 16 secured to the outer wall of the casing. At its lower ends rod 12 is provided with teeth 17 adapted to engage with a dog 18, as hereinafter described. One of these dogs is shown at the left of Fig. 2, it being understood that all of the mechanisms are duplicates of each other, but the dogs lie in different planes as do the operating handles to thereby prevent interference of the mechanisms with each other. These dogs are pivoted at 19 and are connected by rods 20 with dogs 21. Dogs 21 are pivoted at 22, and are adapted to engage with teeth 23 carried by rods 24 that are slidably disposed in brackets 25. These rods 24 have pin and slot engagement 26 with levers 27. Said levers carry at their outer ends, umbrella and cane retaining hoods 28. The umbrellas and canes are placed in compartments 29 which are partially closed by walls 30. When the hoods 28 are pulled down over the upper portions'of said compartments, it will be apparent that they will prevent removal of the canes and umbrellas. Shallow drip receiving recesses 31 are formed in the base 5 beneath each of the umbrella receiving compartments. An opera-glass, and hand bag receiving compartment 32 is located within each section of the casing and is closed by doors 33 that are partially covered by hoods 34. Said doors are provided with teeth 35 upon their inner faces that are adapted to be engaged by dogs 36. These dogs are pivoted at 37 and are moved into placed upon hook 16, and both the hat retaining member 8 and the coat retaining member 15 are held against upward movement by the teeth 17 engaging with dogs 18. In like manner the door 33 is held in its lower and locked position by dog 36 en gaging the teeth 35, and in operation the members 8, 1.5 98 and 33 are pulled down by hand and are locked, as hereinbeforc set forth. A. separate coin or check controlled mechanism is used to control each of these mechanisms, and this coin controlled mechanism has been illustrated in Figs. 4, 5 and 6. Each of the coin controlled mechanisms comprises a shaft 40. Upon this shaft is secured a sector 41 carrying an arcuate tooth bar 42. At each end of the teeth of said bar is formed a deep notch. 43, and a triangular dog 44 is pivoted at 45 and is held in cen tral position by a spring 46, said parts being mounted upon a bracket 47. Upon the outer end of the shaft 40 are operating handles 48. and stops 49 and 50 are provided at the limit of travel. of these levers. These handles, as is best illustrated in Fig. 5, impart partial rotation to shafts 40, these shafts and the sectors 41 turning in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 4. lVhen the sector once starts to move, the dog 44 rides out of the deep notch 43 and lies at such an angle and in engagement with the teeth of arcuate bar 42, that the movement of the shaft may not be reversed until it has been given its full travel, or until the triangular dog rides into the opposite notch 43 where it may swing over its center. The sector 41 carries a half 48 of a coin chute. The other half 49 of said chute is secured to the wall of the casing. This structure provides a self clearing coin chute. In other words the two halves of the coin chute separate from each other and when the machine is actuated, if paper, pieces of tin, tin tags or the like have been pushed into the slot. it will readily clear itself.

The shaft 40 carries a lug 50, and this lug has a double function. When the parts are in the position illustrated in Fig. 4, in other words when the sector 41 has been moved to its limit toward the right, this lug moves toward the tail of lever 51 that is pivoted at 53 upon a bracket 54. This throws the outer end 55 of this lever downwardly and causes it to press upon a rod 56 (see Figs. 2 and The lower end of rod 56 presses upon the tail of one of the dogs 21 and holds said dog out of engagement with the teeth of its corresponding bar 24. Since dogs 21 are connected with the dogs 18 by rods 20, itfollows that dogs 18 will likewise be held out of engagement with the teeth of rods 12, so that as long as the'sector is in its normal position where the coin chute is completed, and the handle 48 stands upright, the members 8, 1.5 28 and 33 may be pushed downwardly at will, but they will not be locked. This is important because if this were not so, mischievous persons and children could lock a machine without depositing a coin, though they would then be unable to unlock it.

Each coin controlled mechanism further comprises a key 57 controllable from the exterior of the casing (see Fig. 1) which opcrates a bolt 58 of a lock 59. The end of this bolt is provided with a latch head. (30 which engages with a latch (31 of sector 41 to lock the sector in its lower position until said bolt is actuated by the key. Normally. the sector is prevented from being moved downwardly by a pin 62 that is carried. by the end of a lever 63, said pin projecting through the sector and entering a pocket formed in the casing. This pin passes through an elongated slot 64 formed .in the sector. The lever 63 is pivoted at 65 and its lower end, engages an arm 66 of the lever 67. The lever 67 is pivoted at 68 and a spring 69 is attached to said lever and to a portion 70 of a supporting bracket 71. A cam lug 72 is carried by lever 67 and the function of this lug is to receive the thrust of the edge of a coin or check 73. This coin or check when deposited in the chute formed by the halves 48 and 49, drops between wings 74 of a coin receiver, and when the handle turns, the edge of the coin travels over lug 72 and causes the rod 66 to move lever 63 to withdraw pin (52, the provision of the slot 64 providing the necessary lost motion to permit this to be done. lVhen the sector reaches its lower position, latch ('31 engages bolts 60. This movement of the sector carries lug 50 away from lever 51 and permits spring 21 to throw dogs 21 and dogs 18 into position to engage the teeth 23 and 17. The operator then moves the locking elements to locking position and removes the key 57 and keeps it in his posses sion until he is ready to depart, when he again places it in. the lock and retracts the bolt to release the sector and to permit the sector to be returned to its normal position, and to thereby cause lug 50 to actuate lever 52 to release the dogs, so that the locking elements may be moved to their elevated position, as will be readily understood.

It is apparent that unless means were provided to prevent it, mischievous persons and children would remove the keys and there by interfere with the proper operation of the device. To prevent this, a lever 75 is pivoted at 76 and has an end 7'? which pro jects into the path of movement of lug 50. The opposite end of this lever is of such shape as to embrace an angular portion 78 of the key. lVhen the key is placed in position this angular port-ion lies horizontal, and when the bolt is turned, it comes to vertical position and is embraced by lever 75, and its turning to remove it from the lock is prevented until lug 5O pressing upon tail 77 sufiici'ently elevates the right hand end of said lever 54, to permit the key to be turned to throw the bolt to its locked position. The throwing of the bolt to locked position locks the sector in its lower position and as before stated, brings the dogs into posit-ion to lock the retaining elements. The operator may then remove the key and retain it, as hereinbefore set forth. To provide for the proper discharge of the coin or check from the wings 7a, and to hold said coin or check so rigidly that the edge of a lead slug will be turned over instead of operating the machine, one of the Wings 74 is mounted upon a pintl'e 74 and carries a rearwardly extending arm 7 4 which travels over a cam face 74 of an extension 80 of bracket 71. Upon initial movement of shaft 40, arm 74 which may, if desired, be provided with a roller 74f, rides up over the cam face 7et", and the pivoted wing 74 is thereby caused to firmly clamp the coin and continues to so clamp the coin until roller 7r rides down the inclined face 7st of the cam. Since at this time wing 7st has moved out of a vertical position, it tends to fall open by gravity and does so as soon as the roller 74 rides off of the cam face Tet" and the coin is permitted to drop from be tween the wings. Steel or iron washers are deflected by magnet 85 to such an extent that they will not jump across gap 86, while leaden disks are so soft that their edges will. bend before they will move lever (36 against the tension of spring 69.

By referring to Fig. 4- it will be seen that one of the notches 43 is sufficiently elongated to permit the necessary lost motion between the parts before the pawl n comes into engagement with the teeth of bar 4-2.

From the foregoing description it will be seen. that simple and efficient means are herein provided for accomplishing the objects of the invention, but while the elements shown and described are well adapted to serve the purposes for which they are intended, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the precise construction set forth, but includes within its purview, such. changes as may be made within the scope of the appended claims.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. In a device of the character described, the combination with a supporting element, of a fixed garment receiving element, movable garment retaining elements, locking means for the garment retaining elements, a manually operable member, means carried by the manually operable member for holding the locking element of the garment retaining members out of action when the manually operable member is in normal position, a key controlled bolt for locking the manually operable member in position at the limit of its operative movement and a latch normally preventing movement of said inanually operable member.

2. In a device of the character described, the combination with a supporting element, of a fixed garment receiving element, movable garment retaining elements, locking means for the garment retaining elements, a manually operable member, means carried by the manually operable member for hold ing the locking element of the garment retaining members out of action when the manually operable member is in normal position, a key controlled bolt for locking the manually operable member in position at the limit of its operative movement, a latch normally preventing movementof said manually operable member, and means for preventing movement of the key of said key controlled bolt when the manually operable member is in its normal position.

Ina device of the character described, the combination with a supporting element, of a fixed garment receiving element, movable garment retaining elements, locking means for the garment retaining elements, a manually operable member, means carried by the manually operable member for holding the locking element of the garment retaining members out of action when the manually operable member is in normal position, a key controlled bolt for locking the manually operable member in position at the limit of its operative movement, a latch normally preventing movement of said manually operable member, and means for releasing said latch.

4.. In a device of the character described, the combination with a supporting stan ilard, of a plurality of hat and coat receiving brackets carried thereby, a plurality of hat and coat retaining members mounted for swinging movement and operating in conjunction with said brackets, actuatinglevers connected to said hat and coat retaining members, a pawl and ratchet mechanism for locking said levers in operative position. a manually operable member which when in normal position holdssaid pawl and ratchet mechanism out of action and a locking member for locking said manually operable member at the limit of its movement to working position.

5. In a device of the character described, the combination with a supporting standard, of a plurality of hatand coat receiving brackets carried thereby, a plurality of hat and coat retaining members mounted for swinging movement and operating in conjunction with said brackets. actuating levers connected to said hat and coat retaining members, a pawl and ratchet mechanism for locking said levers in operative position, a

manually operable member which when in normal position holds said pawl and ratchet mechanism out of action, a locking member for locking said manually operable member at the limit of its movement to Working position and a removable key for controlling said lock.

6. In a device of the character described, the combination with a supporting standard, of a plurality of hat and coat receiving brackets carried thereby, a plurality of hat and coat retaining members mounted for swinging movement and operated in conjunction with said brackets, actuating levers connected to said hat and coat retain ing members, a pawl and ratchet mechanism for locking said levers in operative position, a manually operable member which when in normal position holds said pawl and ratchet mechanism out of action, a locking member for locking said manually operable member at the limit of its movement to working position, a removable key for controlling said lock, and means normally preventing the removal of said key from said lock.

7 In a device of the character described, the combination with a supporting standard, of a plurality of hat and coat receiving brackets carried thereby, a plurality of hat and coat retaining members mounted for swinging movement and operated in conjunction with said brackets, actuating levers connected to said hat and coat retaining members, a pawl and ratchet mechanism for locking said lovers in operative position, a normally operable member which when in normal position holds said pawl and ratchet mechanism out of action, a locking member for locking said manually operable member at the limit of its movement to working position, a removable key for controlling said lock, means normally preventing the removal of said key from said lock and means carried by the manually operable member for releasing said last named means.

8. In a device of the character described, the combination with a supporting base and standard, of a plurality of duplicate mechanisms located upon each side of said standard, said mechanisms comprising a hat retaining member, a coat retaining member, an umbrella retaining member and a compartment closing member, a plurality of toothed members connected to said first named members, a plurality of pawls for engaging said teeth, a manually operable member, means carried by said manually operable member for normally holding said pawl out of engagement with said teeth, and means for locking said manually operable member at the limit of its travel to working position.

9. In a device of the character described. the combination with a supporting base and standard, of a plurality of duplicate mecha' nisms located upon each side of said standard, said mechanisms comprising a hat retaining member, a coat retaining member, an umbrella retaining member and a compartment closing member, a plurality of toothed members connected to said first named members, a plurality of pawls for en gaging said teeth, a manually operable member, means carried by said manually operable member for normally holding said pawl out of engagement with said teeth, means for locking said manually operable member at the limit of its travel to working position and a key for controlling said locking means.

10. In a device of the character described, the combination with a supporting base and standard, of a plurality of duplicate mechanisms located upon each side of said standard, said mechanisms comprising a hat retaining member, a coat retaining member, an umbrella retaining member, and a compartment closing member, a plurality of toothed members connected to said first named members, a plurality of pawls for engaging said teeth, a manually operable member, means carried by said manually operable member for normally holding said pawl out of engagement with said teeth, means for locking said manually operable member at the limit of its travel to working position, a key for controlling said locking means and means for preventing the removal of said key from said lock until the manually operable member reaches its limit of travel to working position.

11. In a device of the character described, the combination with a supporting base and standard, of a plurality of duplicate mechanisms located upon each side of said standard, said mechanisms comprising a hat retaining member, a coat retaining member, an umbrella retaining member and a compartment closing member, a plurality oil" toothed members connected named members, a plurality of pawls for en.- gaging said teeth, a manually operable member, means carried by said manually operable member for normally holding said pawl out of engagement with said teeth, means for locking said manually operable member at the limit of its travel to working position. a key for controlling said locking means, means for preventing the removal of said key from said lock until the manually operable member reaches its limit of travel to working position and means for preventing reversal of the direction of movement of said manually operable member until its limit of travel is reached.

12. In a device of the character described. the combination with a supporting base and standard, of a plurality of hat and coat retaining elements mounted thereon, a plurality of compartment closing members to said first mounted thereon and a plurality of cane and umbrella retaining members mounted thereon, all of said retaining members being arranged in sets, each set being located at one side of said standard, locking members for all of the retaining members of a set, pawl and ratchet mechanisms for holding said locking members in locked position, a manually operable shaft, means carried by 10 said shaft for holding said pawl and ratchet mechanisms out of action, a locking latch normally preventing movement of said manually operable shaft and means for controlling said latch.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN W. VAUGHN. WVitnesses:

FRANCIS MOKERNAN, JAMES W. WHITE.

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